Cafa

Plants animals and natural materials · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A historical name identifying camphor.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341.

Historical Definition

Cafa is camphor.

Meaning

The short entry resolves an unfamiliar name without adding a preparation. A passage employing Cafa may qualify the material or describe something made from it; those details should be read as additions supplied by that passage. The dictionary does not establish a source plant, place of trade or therapeutic purpose here.

For a reader’s edition, keeping both the historical headword and the familiar identifying name findable is more useful than replacing one completely with the other. That preserves traceability while allowing straightforward recognition.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cafa